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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
DAKOTA.

One hundred women voted at Sioux Falls
at the recent election.
A call has been issued for convention to
be held at Aberdeen December Is for the
purpose of pet1tioning Congress to author
ize the holding of a convention to frame a
constitution for State embracing the
whole Territory
Sitting Bull and number of his people,
who. had been on visit to Cheyenne
agency,~ were in Pierre few days ago.
Sitting Bull said he was sorry that the Grow
outbreak had occurred and that he was
tired of war and would advise his younger
people to remain upon the agency
Banker E E. Eddy, of Fargo, has been
appointed Deputy Territorial Treasurer
with reference to the seizure of the
Northern Pacific engines for unpaid taxes
The site has been purchased for a new
Catholic church at Rapid City.
The announcement of the marriage of
Chief Justice BARTLETT Trip of Yankton,
and Mrs Jennie Washburn, at St Paul the
other day, created quite sensation, as
their most intimate friends knew nothing
of their engagement.
Chicago parties are to erect an opera
house at Fargo
Mayor NJ H. Rowley is reported to have
been appointed register of the land Office
at Mitchell He is president of the Secur-
ity Bank and one of the Oldest residents Of
the city.
In Emmons County Thomas Parks raised
this year two hundred bushels of potatoes
on half an acre of ground.
Within the past month or two a number
of samples OF ore have been brought in from
the southern mining districts of the hills
which are claimed to be tellurium. Prof
Hill, the noted proprietor of the Argo Coli
reduction works, has examined samples of
ore from mine short distance from
Custer and unhesitatingly declares them a
combination of tellurium, gold and silver
The extension of the railroad from Rapid.
City to Sturgis City is now in operation
The mule team and stage coach are now no
longer feature of Rapid City life.
The vote of Fargo at the last election, the
largest town in North Dakota, was 1888
The vote of Sioux Falls, the largest town
in Southern Dakota, was 1, 1913.
Judge Edgerton, OF Mitchell, has been in
vited to represent Dakota on the commit
tee which goes to Washington in December
to secure the Republican National conveu-
ton for Minneapolis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

REPORTS received from ST. Peters burgh
on the Goth state that Russia was massing
800, 900 soldiers near the German and
Austrian frontiers.
AT Nice, Italy, the new American church
was completed on the 10Th.
On the 10th all the members Of the French
Cabinet resigned
PRESIDENT GREvY was informed by NM
Clemenceau, Freycinet, Flouquet and Cob
let On the list that they were not willing
to undertake the task of forming Cabinet
OUT of the 312 passengers but eighty
were known to have been saved from the
wreck of the steamer Scholten The gem
eral impression On the 21st was that the
responsibility for the disaster rested with
the officers of the steamer Rosa Mary.
IT was asserted by Dominion Senator OH
the 21st that nearly every French decora-
ton worn by French Canadians had been
purchased Some of the money used in this
peculiar traffic was taken from fund raised
for the purchase of books in France for a
Parliamentary library.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
LATER.


DURING the last month there have been
an unprecedented number of fires at st.
Louis, many Of which have been ascribed to
incendiaries These suspicious as. to their
origin have been justified by the arrest of
three men on the 22d, one of whom con-
fessed that he and his companions had
started fires in several lumber-yards, which
had caused total loss of nearly $50, 600
WINNEBAGo COUNTY Qllinois) Prohibition
lists met at Rockford ON the 22d and passed
resolutions pledging the party to do all in
its power to destroy the liquor traffic
FIVE HUNDRED coal miners on the line of
the Shenango & Allegheny railroad, i'll Penn
sylvania, struck ON the 22d for an increase of
nine cents per ton and it was thought their
number would be increased to a thousand.
IT was stated on the 22d that the Illinois
Central road had secured control of the Du-
bpque and Dunleith BRIDGE, now holding
81, OH, 900 of the 81, 200, 900 capital stock.
DIFFICULTY was experienced in getting q
jury to try Johann Most at New York on the
22d, because the men called expressed an
aversion for anarchy in general, and a par
ticular aversion for the defendant
NJ BRIsSoN and several other leading
statesmen of France, who were called upon
by President Grevy ON the 22d to form a
Cabinet, intimated to him that the only So
luton OF the present crisis was his own res
ignation
Two LOCOMOTIVES and seventeen cars were
wrecked and destroyed by flames near Sher-
man, Ill, on the Chicago & Alton road early
ON the morning of the ODD The loss would
reach $4,000
OHIo'S vote for Governor as shown by the
official figures on the 22d gives General
Foraker plurality of %, 732. His vote
was $50, 937 The total gubernatorial vote
was 746, 1886.
BISHOP BEDELLs physicians said on the
22d that his condition had been complicated
by an attack of pneumonia, and that the
illness of the venerable churchman was the
cause for grave fears
BENJAMIN JosEPHsoN and Louisa, his wife,
were on the stand in the Arensdcrf trial at
Sioux City Ia, on the 22d, and gave very
sensational testimony. They sWore they
saw the defendant shoot Rev. Mr.. Haddock.
They We're well acquainted with Arensdorf,
and said they could not be mistaken. Other
witnesses testified, and the defense rested
its case.
AN important opinion was rendered by
Attorney General Garland in a letter to
Secretary Lamar on the 22d in regard to
land grant claims, in which he construed
the act as granting priority TO bona fde set
tiers
Dr. D. c. KELLEY, of Nashville, Tenn,
member of the North Alabama conference
OF the Southern Methodist Churc h, at their
meeting on the night of the 21st at Tusca-
ioosa, Tenn, was asked to resign his posi-
ton as treasurer of the conference on ac-
count of his utterances in reference to the
Emma Abbott episode. He commended
the lady for rising in a church to defend
herself against minister's structures on
theaters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON.

FhOM WASEINGTOEE
IN his annual report issued on the 18th
James W. Hyatt, Treasurer of the United
States, shows that the revenues Of the Gov
eminent for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1887, were 1871 ,403, 277; ordinary ex-
peuditures, 1857, 932, 179; surplus receipts
available for the reduction of the public,
debt, S1O3, All, O97. As compared with the
previous year the receipts increased 1874,
963, $50, the expenditures $25, 449, 041
and the surplus revenues SO, 514, 800. Dur
ing the year 3.216, 831 standard silver
dollars were coined
DURING the seven days ended ON the 18th,
there were 205 business failures in the
United States against 105 the previous
seven days.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
81, IT'S, 294, 63S, against 1868, 459, 083 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1886 the increase
amounts to 7.8 per cent
SECRETARY WHITNEY who returned to
Washington on the 21st was said to be
greatly improved in health.
1T was reported on the 21st that Mr..
Sparks was seeking a vindication of his
conduct as Land Commissioner by an cleo
ton to Congyess
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

CHICAGO Nov. 18.--An association conf
posed of representatives of the State Boards
of Agriculture of the Western States met
Wednesday night at the Sherman House,
the following States Icing represented:
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota,
Nebraska and Wisconsin, Governor r. ".
Turner, of Nebraska, called the assembly 10
order On motion Of H. c. Wheeler, presi-
dent of the Iowa State Board of Agriculture,
the association proceeded 30 fix the dates
for the State fairs of 1888, with the follow
ing result: Iowa and Wisconsin, September
8 TO s; Minnesota and Nebraska, September
10 to Is; Indiana and Kansas, September
Ito %; Illinois September "a to 90
The date Of the St. Louis fair is set for
October l TO G.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
THE NORTHWEST.
Brief Mention Of News Of General
Interest.
ILLINOIS.

At Orion, Henry County, the other after
noon carriage containing Mr. and Mrs
Shuet's three children was wrecked by a
train, and one girl, Ida, was killed instantly
and the two brothers were fatally injured
The horses were killed
r. W. Ashbrook and wife, of Mattoon,
celebrated their golden wedding few days
ago.
Near Sidell, Coles County, horses were
recently dying by the score from a disease
similar to cancer. Nothing had been found
that would relieve the beast dying Oh cure
the disease
James Ray, a druggist, jumped from a
fifth-story window of the Grace Hotel in
Chicago a few mornings ago and was al
most instantly killed
B. F. Henry is the oldest teacher in De
Witt County. For twenty-three' years he
has taught school, during which time he
has had under his charge 1886 children,
and thinks this winters school will com
plete the 1000.
The Chicago Times says that since the
hanging of the Anarchists 100000 has
been refused for piece of inside real estate
which could have been bought before the
execution for 5000 600
Inspector Bonfeld recently distributed
$500 among the families of the officers
killed at the Haymarket riot in Chicago.
The donor would not divulge his identity.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Crowen celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding at
Salem a few days ago.
There are now 543 inmates at the Illinois
Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy, and
the buildings are SO uncomfortably crowded
that the trustees have announced that no
more veterans can be received until the
new cottages are completed
Thomas Stewart a respectable colored
farmer of Normal was murdered the other
night on lonely road
W, T. Cunningham, of Paramount, has
been appointed master in chancery for Yer
million County He has received more of
fetal appointments than any other man in
his county, having held some office OF
other ever since 1855.
Harvey Johnson, a rich farmer of Pal
myra, aged sixty-five years, was found
dead in field near his house a few days
ago. 1t was supposed he fell from his
horse.
A fire in the Saratoga Hotel in Chicago
few nights ago caused a loss of 500, 900
A panic ensued among the guests, but no
lives were lost and no one was injured
The Illinois grand encampment of Odd
Fellows, in session at Cairo recently elected
D. l. Murdoch, of Fairbury, Grand Patri-
arch; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS c. Smith,
Grand Scribe, and John 7. Foss, of Chicago,
Grand Treasurer A gain of 500 members
is reported during the pastyear; total mem
bership, 80, 1000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
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A BIG BORE.
Contracts Let at Chicago to Construct q
L

Contracts Let at Chicago to Construct a
New Lake Tunnel Four Miles in Length.
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-The contract for the
new lake tunnel was formally executed Sat
urday afternoon, and Andrew Onderdank, of
New York, to whom it was awarded, filed
bond in the sum of $500, 900 for the proper
fulfillment of the terms of the agreement
c. r. Cummings, William B. Howard and
George s. Wiiletts are the bondsmen. The
tunnel is to extend from the south end of
Lake Park four miles into the lake, and is to
be eight feet in diameter. From the
eastern end the tunnel is to be extended to
some site not yet designated where pump
ing works will be erected The estimated
cost of work and material is S748, 600.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
"A svoeng man of Nanticoke. p,

SocAS Iidii VI NduIlCOKc, ia. I,
became engaged toa highly-connected
young lady, and elaborate preparations
were made for their wedding on GER
tain date. The minister and guests
were all assembled; the hour came, but
the groom did not, nor has he yet APP
peared. He sent note to a friend,
which read as follows: II love Nora
dearly and would like to wed her, but
something tells me that l must not.
Oh, if could only drive off this feeling.
| believe in my heart that l am not
good enough for the girl 1t is be-
heved that the young man. who is a
very bashful man, was afraid to face
the large wedding party.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

WHEN the steamer Pavonia was 225
miles off Boston light recently she met
the Britannia repairing an Atlantic
cable. A battery was brought into
use, and word was cabled from the
ocean to Boston that the Pavonia
would arrive Sunday noon. The news
was published in Boston papers, but no
one knew until the arrival in Boston
of the Payonia that it came from the
vessel herself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

The New York Mail and Express has
discovered the startling truth - if it be
truth $780, that the value of all the gum
chewed by the beauty and the chivalry of
this blessed country in single year is
SO, 600, 600 This is a power of gum,
and when you figure out how many
chews SO, 900, 900 will buy for one cent
a chew, it isn't SO surprising that
every body seems to be chewing for
dear life, or that you can't scratch a
match on the under side of mantel-
Diocp
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
FOREST FIRES SPREADING,
Farther Accounts OF Damage Done by the
Flames in Southern States.

Flames in Southern States.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. ;23.-Reports of forest
fires come from all directions, excepting
The north, and give accounts of great de-
struotion of property In Southeastern
Missouri and in Arkansas between the Iron
Mountain railway and the Mississippi river,
the swamps and lowlands have been almost
burned out and the whole country is so
filed with smoke that the people are almost
stiled. ,
AS far West as Hot Springs fires have dew
asted farms, burned residences, barns and
fences, and the little town of Mayfiower, in
Franklin County, has barely escaped total
destruction On the east side of the Mis-
sissippi river, in Washington and Bolivar
counties, Miss, nineteen cotton-gins,
besides much other valuable prop
erty, have been destroyed From
the Indian Territory are reports of great
prairie fires. Forty miles of range around
Red Fork have been entirely ravaged and
thousands of tons of hay, farming imple-
ments and large number of cattle have
been burned anu other sections of the Ter
ritory have suffered in the same way.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
A NEW departure in insurance.

A NEW departure in insurance, Just
adopted by the New York Board of
ire Underwriters, has in view the
lessening of danger from fire. Twelve
members of the board are to constitute
aprotective committee to prescribe re-
qurements on application for the pro-
lection of mercantile or manufacturing
RISKS including provision for auto
matte sprinklers and other approved
appliances. The movement appears to
be IN the direction of securing better
protection from fires, and in that view
1t is certainly very commendable
one
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

HE warming-pan and the old foot
stove are now among the cherished or
naments of the best houses. If your
ancestors couldn't afford a warming
pan or foot-stove, still you can buy
them from the same dealers who keen
up the supply of grandfather's clocks
by having new ones made when the
old ones run short.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
MINNESOTA,

John Fl. Weber, young man in the en-
ploy OF the Northern Pacific Express Com
pany in St Paul, disappeared few days
ago, taking with him So, 900 left Tor ship
ment to Western points.
The fifth district convention of post
masters decided to request Congressman
Nelson to aid in securing an increase in
saleries and allowances of third and fourth
class postmasters
The order confirming the sale of all eff
fects of the Northwestern Manufacturing &
Car Company at Saltwater has been signed
by Judge McCluer. The property is valued
at $50, 900, 900.
By an order issued by the Board of Rail
road and Warehouse Commissioners the
passenger-rate on all roads in the State is
placed at three cents mile. This order,
however, affects but two roads, the Mani
toba and Northern Pacific, the other roads
having been charging that rate since June
1886
M. j. Parks, whose daughter eloped with
her uncle. George Resnick, returned to his
home in Perham the other morning, hay
ing captured both runaways at Litchfield
They were not married, but were living to-
gether.
1t is reported that two children while re-
turning from school near High Prairie, Rice
County, the other day were attacked by
wolves and before assistance could reach
them they were devoured A few days be-
fore man was pursued and attacked by
wolves in the same vicinity, and it was only
after long fight that he escaped with his
life
John Hopkins, an eighteen-year-old son
of Charles Hopkins, of St Peter, was found
in Belgrade the other night shot through
the heart. He had been hunting and the
shooting was accidental.
Ole J. Verness is the first prisoner ever re-
ceived at the penitentiary from Norman
County. He is sentenced to two and half
years for bigamy. 80.
A fire which started in the barn of the
Northwestern Hotel at St. Peter the other
night destroyed thirty buildings, including
two hotels the First National Bank, several
stores restaurants, millinery stores saloons,
the American Express office and several
barns. Loss, 100000.
The grand jury at Fergus Falls recently
returned four indictments against Pattee &
Rea, of Pelican Rapids, and four against w.
c. Crandall, of the same place. for selling
liquor without license. Both are drug
gists, and the town voted no license last
snrinp
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

Two YOUNG ladies carried out each
a keg of gunpowder from a burning
store during recent fire at New Mar
tinsville, W. Va. Their names are
Belle Borroughs and Virginia Spring
er The exploit was hazardous, as the
kegs were so hot they could only be
handled when enveloped in wet cloths,
but 1t prevented disastrous explo-
sion
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

In his annual report Surgeon Cen
eral Hamilton, of the marine hospital
service, expresses the opinion that the
epidemic of yellow fever in Florida
might have been prevented had Con-
gress passed the bill introduced at its
last session to establish National
quarantine station near Key West.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

SEVENTEEN persons, widows and or
phans, were left dependent by the
bombs thrown in the Haymarket meet
ing in Chicago a year and half ago.
Policeman Sheehan was unmarried;
Policeman began left boy; Policeman
Barrett, very pretty young bride of
a few months; Policeman Feayan, a
widow and three children; Policeman
Reddeo, widow and two young Chill
dren; Policeman Hanson, widow and
six small children.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

A CONVENTION of South Carolina
farmers which met at Columbia a few
days ago voted James M. Brodham to
be the model man of the State. Mr..
Brodham is seventy-eight years old,
and has plowed every summer in the
past sixty-eight years, having made
tifty-four crops on the same plantation.
He has never bought pound of bacon
or lard for his own use, has always
raised wool enough for his own and
his families clothing, never refused a
call OF charity, took his last drink of
whisky in 1887, and does not recollect
having ever sworn an oath.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

ANTHONY CoMsToCK is waging a
vigorous war against Edward L.
KnoedIer, a well-known fine-art dealer
in New York. Among Objectionable
pictures in the defendants possession
are works of artists of Worldwide
fame, but they are not highly valued
by MIR. Comstock, who says: Fine
art may be lewd and indecent"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

The plaintiff in suit against COM
mercial agency at Montreal was
awarded two thousand dollars dam
ages upon showing that his business
had been injuriously affected by false
information furnished by the defend
ants to one of their customers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
VIII Spend Over $4,000, 900 on a We'd


SAN francisco, Nov. 21.-It seems that
an amount equal to $40, O0O,O 900, estimated
by the Empress dowager of China to be suf-
ficient for the expenses of the young En-
pero1's coming marriage, was too small.
The latest news from China is that the
officials charged with the arrangements for
the marriage have reported to her Majesty
that at least S12, $50, 600 will De required
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

DR.. 6. H. MARTIN, one of the lead
ers OF the recent revolution in Hawaii,
said in Pittsburgh recently that great
changes for the better have been made
IN the Government, with which, it
would seem, King Kalakaua has now
very little to do, as he is controlled by
the Cabinet and Legislature.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25

JOSEPH FULLER, seaman in the
United States navy, living at New
Duryport, Mass, has been granted a
pension for total blindness from Oc-
toper u, 1868. The first payment
amounts to the fat sum of $13,O85.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-25
THE FREE DELIVERY SERVICE.
Annual Report of the Superintendent-A
Large Increase in Mail Matter.

Annual Report of the Superintendent-A
Large Increase in Mail Matter.
WASHINGTON, Nov 21.-The annual report
of Colonel J. F. Bates, superintendent OF
the free delivery system of the Post-office
Department, shows that since July 1, 1868,
the number of free delivery offices has in
creas ed from &c to 189, and that the num-
Der of carriers employed increased from 685
to 1910 The cost of the service for the
last fiscal year was 81, 61s, 500, an increase
Of 1906, 1856 over the previous year. The
report shows that during the year the car
riers delivered and collected 2, 234, 564, 656
pieces of mail matter, an increase during
the year of over $50 900 600 pieces